As Dhammanando Bhikkhu points out, (at Dhamma Wheel) this was also the first sutra or sutta rendered into a Western language:

It was also the first complete Buddhist text to be translated into a Western language, contrary to Justin McDaniel and others, who have mistakenly awarded this accolade to Viggo Fausbøll’s 1855 Latin translation of the Dhammapada.

Fausbøll’s work was actually preceded by two French and one German translation of the Sūtra in Forty-two Sections. The first French one, translated from the Chinese, was published in 1756 in C.L.J. de Guignes’ history of the Huns, Turks, Mongols and Tartars.

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Nietzsche